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Waitstill and Martha Sharp: Heroes of the Holocaust
Stand for Israel | August 10, 2021
A minister and his social worker wife from Massachusetts, Waitstill and Martha Sharp moved to Europe during WWII to help save Jewish people.
20th Anniversary of Sbarro Pizza Terror Bombing
Stand for Israel | August 9, 2021
Twenty years ago, 15 Israelis were killed and 130 were wounded in the bombing of the Sbarro pizza restaurant.
First Israeli Woman to Win Olympic Gold
Stand for Israel | August 9, 2021
The third-ever Olympic gold medalist from Israel, Linoy Ashram is also the first Israeli woman to win the top prize at an Olympics.
Druze Confront Hezbollah Terrorists Who Attacked Israel
Stand for Israel | August 6, 2021
Those who stand for Israel have long been aware of terrorists' tactic of cowardly firing their rock
Photo Friday: 'Amen! Amen!'
Stand for Israel | August 6, 2021
In this historic photo taken in the Holy Land in 1880, worshipers pray at the Western Wall, much as we still do today. Amen!
Unearthing Evidence of a Biblical Earthquake
Stand for Israel | August 5, 2021
In the very first verse of the biblical Book of Amos, we read of "the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel" (1:1).
Rockets Fired at Israel from Lebanon
Stand for Israel | August 4, 2021
The IDF responded with strikes to the north of Israel after Palestinian terrorists in Lebanon launched rockets into the Holy Land.
A Father, a Math Teacher, and a Holocaust Hero
Stand for Israel | August 3, 2021
A Russian schoolteacher, Aleksander Kramarovskiy posed as the father of one of his Jewish pupils, saving her life during the Holocaust.
Gymnast Wins Gold for Israel
Stand for Israel | August 1, 2021
The Tokyo Olympic games have been good so far for Israel, especially as she will be bringing home her second ever gold medal. The Jerusalem Post’s Idan Zonshine reports that Artem Dolgopyat, a gymnast competing in the men’s floor exercise, made the Jewish state and Jewish people proud by placing first in Tokyo.
Photo Friday: Ashdod, Yesterday and Today
Stand for Israel | July 30, 2021
"...west of Ekron, all that were in the vicinity of Ashdod, together with their villages; Ashdod, i